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Updated July 9, 1998 12:01 a.m. ET

From "Explaining Hitler" page 198:

If there was any real shift in the nature of the hatred Hitler harbored, if his primitive hatred could be said to have evolved or changed, it might rather have been in the way Hitler came to acquire and deploy a kind of ironic knowingness about his primitive hatred. The way he would come to make artful little knowing jests about it, virtually chuckle over the magnitude of his hatred by telling his cronies, with a nudge and a wink, that he thought [Julius] Streicher--and the...